Chapter 153: First Visit to the Mountain City

In the blink of an eye, three days passed quickly.

Shancheng exudes a unique charm.

Liu Tao looked at the Jialing River, where there were many small boats parked, and he didn't know whether they were fishing or ferrying passengers.

About two or three kilometers further down, it is the confluence of the Jialing River and the Yangtze River.

As the temporary capital and permanent capital of the Nationalist government during the period of resistance, and also the resident of the Southwest Region in the early days of the founding of the Republic, Shancheng can be said to be an important town in the central and western regions, with a population of 2.6 million, and the urban population alone is as high as 1.9 million.

It is also an industrial base with a large number of factories!

During the period of resistance, as the temporary capital and permanent capital, more than 400 industrial and commercial and financial enterprises moved to Shancheng, which promoted the first leapfrog development of Shancheng, forming an industrial structure with weapons and military production as the center, machinery, light textiles, metallurgy, mining, electricity, etc. as the main body, and both light and heavy, and a relatively complete category.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, based on national defense and security considerations, Shancheng received further state investment. During the "First Five-Year Plan", the state laid out a number of energy and machinery construction projects in Shancheng. During the "Second Five-Year Plan" period, the metallurgy and coal of Shancheng were developed as a priority. During the "Third Line Construction" period of more than ten years, this place was a production base for weapons, civilian machinery, medicine, chemicals, and instrumentation industries, forming large and medium-sized backbone enterprises with obvious characteristics of heavy industry structure and supporting scientific research and development institutions, making Shancheng an important industrial system in the country.

It is precisely because of the large number of factories that the urbanization of Shancheng reached an astonishing 73.1% at this time!

In contrast, the total population of Kuncheng is only 1.4 million, and the urban population barely reaches one million, which is almost exactly half of Shancheng.

In various conditions, Shancheng is far better than Kuncheng.

When the tank manufacturing plant was built, there were actually other opinions internally, and the Yunnan Province also expressed its own suggestions, wanting Liu Tao to put the tank manufacturing plant in Kuncheng.

After all, it was a large investment of more than 1 billion yuan, and the total investment of the state in Yunnan Province was less than 1 billion yuan a year.

And that was not a one-time total investment of more than 1 billion yuan. After the factory was built, it needed to be continuously produced, plus the workers' lives, the driving effect was much greater.

But after several discussions and communications, they finally chose to put the tank manufacturing plant in Shancheng.

Firstly, no matter what, Yun Province is also on the front line. Polar Bear has been supporting Annan. Annan is not reconciled to last year's failure and is preparing for war. Shancheng is different. Shancheng belongs to the real rear area.

Secondly, Shancheng is a national industrial base with a large number of skilled workers and university research sites.

Finally, Shancheng can form a strong supporting system. Whether it is a steel plant or other factories, it is very convenient, which is unmatched by Kun City.

You know, whether it is a self-propelled anti-aircraft gun or a tank, there are hundreds of thousands of parts involved, and many of the materials used are new materials.

If you rely on your own production, the efficiency is too low.

It's okay for a short time, but for a long time, it must be to support supporting factories.

Shancheng, suburbs.

Close to the Yangtze River, a large piece of land has been cleared here.

The original village has been relocated, and the woodland and fields have been cleared.

More than 10,000 acres of fields and woodlands have been leveled.

The tank factory is going to be built here.

Sand, gravel, steel, etc., a lot of them have been piled up like mountains.

In addition to the tank factory, a wharf will be built here at the same time. Water transportation will become an important means of transportation for the tank factory in the future.

The tanks and armored vehicles produced will be directly loaded at the wharf and transported directly through the Yangtze River.

At this time, Liu Tao and other leaders of Panshan Machinery Factory, leaders of Shancheng, leaders of Sichuan Province, and leaders of the Fifth Ministry of Machinery gathered here to attend the groundbreaking ceremony of the tank factory.

As the largest single investment project this year, the construction of the tank factory has attracted much attention.

The leaders above even telegraphed the local authorities to ensure that the project was completed smoothly.

For this reason, Shancheng and Sichuan Province not only organized a large number of construction workers, but also deployed rare engineering vehicles.

In a simple house, with maps hanging on the wall, a middle-aged man in a green military uniform, "Pang Yong", was introducing military security facilities.

This place is easy to defend but difficult to attack. The width of the Yangtze River is about 1.5 kilometers. The land is east-west oriented and roughly rectangular in shape. The terrain is narrower at the eastern and western ends, about 50 meters wide, and connected to a mountain in the north.

As a military factory, military security facilities are of paramount importance. For example, some bunkers need to be considered along the river, sentry-style gates need to be set up at the east and west ends, and sentries and fortresses need to be set up on the mountain.

These military security facilities need to ensure that in the face of enemy attacks, the armed forces of the factory can rely on these military security facilities to fight the enemy and persist until reinforcements arrive.

The military is naturally responsible for this aspect of military security. After all, they are professionals in marching and fighting.

They are not only responsible for the construction guidance of military security buildings, but also the armed forces of the factory will receive their training later, and even at critical moments, the armed forces of the factory will accept the leadership of the troops.

About fifteen minutes later, everyone walked out of the house because the groundbreaking ceremony was about to begin.

Looking at the people with light in their eyes, Liu Tao secretly sighed in his heart. Although there is a lack of construction equipment and the construction efficiency is a bit poor, but man will conquer nature. This group of people with faith can burst out unimaginable power.

China's initial industrialization and the construction of the Third Front were miracles created by this group of people fighting against heaven and earth.

The construction of the tank manufacturing plant was very difficult, especially the assembly workshop, which had very high requirements. All of them used steel structures. It was determined through the calculations of a large number of technicians. After all, the largest lifting equipment can reach 70 tons, which can lift a fully manufactured Type 80 tank.

Many steel materials have to be specially cast by steel mills.

And they need to complete the construction in one and a half years, at most two years.

In this era, this is a key project, and it is worth everything.

Otherwise, under the current conditions, it may take ten years to build a tank manufacturing plant.

And this is the early land acquisition and immigration, which was completed in less than three months. If it were thirty or forty years later, so much land would need to be acquired and relocated, and it might take three years, and it might not be done.

In this era, as long as the government is determined to do something, it can concentrate its efforts on major events, and the people also support the party and the government, and there are no nail households at all.

In this era, land is collective, and ordinary people think that land belongs to the government.

Liu Tao said it very simply, that is, on behalf of Panshan Machinery Factory, he promised that during the construction period here, the workers' wages would be three times higher than before, that is, 1.5 yuan a day outside, and 4.5 yuan a day here.

It was this promise that made the workers applaud excitedly.

4.5 yuan a day, even if you work for a full month without rest, it is actually only 135 yuan a month.

But even so, it is already very exciting.